Title
Haptic Cooperation Between People, And Between People And Machines
Abstract
Haptic interaction between people and machines might benefit from an understanding of haptic communication between one person and another. We recently reported results showing that two people performing a physically shared dyadic task can outperform either person alone, even when the perception of each participant is that the other is a hindrance [1]. Evidently a dyad quickly negotiates a more efficient motion strategy than is available to individuals. This negotiation must take place through a haptic channel of communication, and it is apparently at a level below the awareness of the participants. Here we report results on the motion strategy that emerged. By recording forces and motions we show that the dyads "specialized" temporally such that one member took on early parts of the motion and the other late parts. Tests in which one participant's contribution was surreptitiously replaced by a motor did not elicit a similar cooperative response from the remaining human participant, showing that the language of haptic communication between people must be rather subtle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IROS.2006.282489
2006 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-12
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomechanics
Computer vision,Haptic interaction,Haptic communication,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Dyad,Perception,Multimedia,Haptic technology,Stereotaxy,Negotiation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.84
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kyle B. Reed120221.01
Michael A. Peshkin2812104.61
Mitra J Hartmann315921.78
James L Patton44615.33
Peter M. Vishton55910.29
Marcia Grabowecky6274.99